Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 16, 2007Caroline County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2007, 10:27 PM EDT for Caroline County, Maryland. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 2007, 10:27 PM EDT (02:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2007, 11:15 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Caroline County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2007-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4766 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2007-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 175 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
4766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.7
Supercell composite
26.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 170228
SVRPHI
MDC011-170315-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0189.070817T0227Z-070817T0315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1027 PM EDT THU AUG 16 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CAROLINE COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND...

* UNTIL 1115 PM EDT

* AT 1025 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF DENTON...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOVER...AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING OVER...
  RURAL SOUTHERN CAROLINE COUNTY THROUGH 11:15 PM EDT

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3880 7594 3881 7591 3883 7591 3883 7593
      3884 7593 3886 7594 3889 7594 3890 7574
      3872 7572 3871 7594
TIME...MOT...LOC 0227Z 296DEG 11KT 3879 7586

$$

JRP
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KPHI 170309
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1108 PM EDT THU AUG 16 2007

MDC011-170318-
/O.EXP.KPHI.SV.W.0189.000000T0000Z-070817T0315Z/
CAROLINE MD-
1108 PM EDT THU AUG 16 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL CAROLINE COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 1115 PM EDT...

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEAKENING AND WERE IN THE PROCESS OF EXITING 
SOUTHEASTERN CAROLINE COUNTY.

HOWEVER, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM 
EDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND.

LAT...LON 3880 7594 3881 7591 3883 7591 3883 7593
      3884 7593 3886 7594 3889 7594 3890 7574
      3872 7572 3871 7594
TIME...MOT...LOC 0308Z 296DEG 11KT 3873 7572

$$

JRP

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.